[Fwd: Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?]

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Tyler Smith wrote:

> On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>   
> > Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[🔎] 371037.10735.qm@web35714.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> >
> >     
> > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint?
> > >       
> > Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. 
> > It's deprecating Powerpoint at this point.
> >
> >     
>
> That would be great news, but why do you have that impression?
> Powerpoint is still the standard at my school and at any conferences I
> have attended in the last year.
>   

Not to mention most of the business community.  Most of the folks I deal with wouldn't know how to open an openoffice file.